How To Install sylfilter on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sylfilter on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sylfilter
sylfilter is:
SylFilter is a generic message filter library and command-line tools. It provides a bayesian filter which is very popular as an algorithm for spam filtering. SylFilter also supports multilingual and can be applied to any languages. It is implemented with C language and runs fast with small resources.
- Very lightweight and fast
- Provides learning-type junk filter
- Easy-to-use command line tool
- Multilingual support (including CJKV)
- Supports several embedded databases (SQLite and QDBM)
There are three methods to install sylfilter on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sylfilter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sylfilter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sylfilter
Install sylfilter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sylfilter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sylfilter
Install sylfilter Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sylfilter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sylfilter
How To Uninstall sylfilter on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sylfilter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sylfilter
Uninstall sylfilter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sylfilter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sylfilter
Remove sylfilter Configurations and Data
To remove sylfilter configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sylfilter
Remove sylfilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sylfilter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sylfilter
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sylfilter package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
